Edward Abbey frasi celebri
Origine: Da The Cowboy and His Cow, discorso tenuto a Missoula nell'aprile 1985; citato in Peter Singer e Jim Mason, Come mangiamo: le conseguenze etiche delle nostre scelte alimentari, traduzione di Francesca Tondi, il Saggiatore, Milano, 2011, [//books.google.it/books?id=2wafUFd2KQQC&pg=PA272 p. 272]. ISBN 978-88-565-0241-1
Edward Abbey Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
“Equilibrio, questo è il segreto. Moderato estremismo.”
Origine: Da Bedrock and Paradox.
Edward Abbey: Frasi in inglese
“Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.”
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97
Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire
"The Heart of Noon", p. 116
Desert Solitaire (1968)
“Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.”
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
“Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.”
Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
Edward Abbey libro Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives (1990)
“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
"How It Was", page 55
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)
On the Colorado River, in “Down the River with Major Powell”, p. 201
The Journey Home (1977)
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97
“There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.”
Edward Abbey libro Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives (1990)
“The plow has probably done more harm — in the long run — than the sword.”
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire
"Down the River", p. 147
Desert Solitaire (1968)
“An empty man is full of himself.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“All living things on earth are kindred.”
Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire
"Serpents of Paradise", p. 22
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
“A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
Edward Abbey libro Hayduke Lives
Hayduke Lives (1990)
Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang
page 312
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire
"Down the River", p. 147
Desert Solitaire (1968)
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
"The Second Rape of the West," The Journey Home, 1977
The Journey Home (1977)
Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang
Seldom Seen Smith, page 313
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire
"The First Morning", p. 7
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97